“Model Psychology” Attacks

"LLMs are vulnerable to “psychological” tricks (Li et al., 2023e; Shen et al., 2023), which can be exploited by attackers. Examples include instructing the model to behave like a specific persona (Shah et al., 2023; Andreas, 2022), or employing various “social engineering” tricks crafted by humans (Wei et al., 2023c) or other LLMs (Perez et al., 2022b; Casper et al., 2023c)."